EASY FABRIC CARE - Simply throw into the washing machine! Wash cold with like colors to prevent any color bleeding. Tumble dry low. For your health and safety, we don't use a chemical dye adherent.

USE WITH OR WITHOUT A YOGA MAT - Heading to the beach or a remote vacation? No need to pack your unwieldy yoga mat. All you need is a Shandali Yoga towel, and any location becomes a yoga studio. If you do have a mat, use the Shandali yoga towel to give your yoga posture a plush velvety feel that not only feels great, but also absorbs slippery sweat and makes your expensive mat last longer! It will be delivered via email immediately after purchase.

GET FIT AND STRONG: Yoga improves your muscle tone and fitness when you practice regularly. With a slippery sweat-free foundation you will have more confidence and more stability. In this way, the GoSweat Shandali Yoga Towel will help you achieve harder postures and more advanced techniques. By improve your yoga practice and confidence, you will soon notice marked improvements to your health and physical wellbeing.

PERFECT YOUR POSTURES: Using a yoga towel helps to create a solid, stable and sweat free foundation to practice on. Without the risk of slipping on sweat, you can stay focused and advance quickly in your asana practice. It takes a consistent foundation that you trust for the most productive development in yoga

KEEP HYGIENIC AND HEALTHY: Increase your confidence when using the studio's in-house mats by putting a hygienic layer between you and the mat. Bring your own clean yoga towel, place on top of the studio mat, and remove your worries about whose sweat and germs you'll be practicing on. No need to hurt your shoulders carrying your heavy yoga mat from home; just take your Shandali Yoga towel. It's lightweight, easy, personal, and fits nicely into your bag.

LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD WITH 488% LESS WEIGHT: Carrying your yoga mat to-and-from the studio can be a hassle. It's heavy, big, clunky, and doesn't easily fit inside your handbag. By getting in the habit of bringing your own personal yoga towel to class and using the studio's yoga mats, you can reduce your carrying weight by almost 500%. Stay light, quick, and care-free.

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I do hot yoga regularly and wanted to get a new mat towel into the rotation. I was looking for a less expensive option to the Yogitoes Skidless mat towels I currently own, and thought the "#1 Best Hot Yoga Towel, Super Absorbent, 100% Microfiber, Anti-Slip, SUEDE, Best Bikram / HOT Yoga Towel..." at $22 sounded ideal. It's less than half the price, and I liked it right away out of the box. It's definitely soft, I like how it feels against my skin, and it's quite large - overhangs my yoga mat by at least an inch on all sides, which is fine. I washed it right away and put it into practice the next day.

The first time I used it, I didn't wet it. I never wet my Yogitoes towels, and even though this towel doesn't have anything to "grip" against your mat, the suede texture felt like it would provide some level of non-slip. And I suppose it does... if you're comparing it to a regular house towel or beach towel. My feet and hands don't slip at all on this product, but this product doesn't stay in place on the mat nearly as well as compared to the Yogities. Whether I'm hopping forward, sliding through, or turning my feet for placement - the towel moved or bunched EACH time. Every time we returned to downward dog, I found myself using the opportunity to smooth it back into place, and once I had to stop during class to reposition it and smooth it because it was driving me nuts. Near the end of class, by the time my sweat and general studio humidity had put moisture into the towel, it wasn't sliding as much. But it was still a huge disappointment.

The next time I used it, I wet it using the studio spray bottle. It definitely helped, but it still moved or bunched pretty easily, so I thought maybe I hadn't wet it enough. So the last time I used it, I poured water from my bottle onto the mat in several spots to make sure it was dampened all the way through in several areas. This definitely helped - but even damp, it still bunches under my feet if I'm "turning" my feet or hands for various poses, or twisting against it. It's not terrible, and it hasn't required stopping class to reposition like it did that first day. Occasional bunching is easy enough to smooth out during a downward dog... but at the end of the day, this is no where NEAR the "best" I was expecting based on the item description and the few reviews I read. I will say, it does a great job of soaking up sweat! So perhaps if you have an advanced practice (where you're pretty much floating lightly in and out of poses), and you're looking for something that will actually draw moisture away from you, then I think this would work well. But if you're not advanced and you don't want to be distracted by your mat towel during practice, spend the extra money and get the Yogitoes or another mat with the rubber/silicone grippers that will actually grip against your mat during poses to help keep it in place.

Note that the towel that defaults on the ordering page is a tiny hand towel. I thought I was ordering a yoga mat towel - all the descriptions are of a yoga mat towel. But, if you don't change the default setting, you will receive a small hand towel. The towel seems fine, but not at all what I thought I ordered. The hand towel is $10 and the yoga mat towel is $20. Definitely pay close attention to your order or you might be getting something you didn't expect.

I wanted to like this towel, if for no reason other than I bought it so I own it and I really don't want to 1) own something I hate or 2) have to run out to the store to buy a replacement. But this towel is SO SLIPPERY. It slips on the mat side,which is annoying, but more importantly, neither my hands nor feet can get a good grip on it. Today, in Warrior Two, I started sliding and basically ended up in side splits. I have trouble staying in up dog, plank... basically any position where my hands or/feet are on the mat. The only time I'm not worried about falling on my face is basically when I'm in shavasana. I bought this towel to solve the sweaty/slippery mat problem, but it just exacerbates it. Wish I could return it!

I've taken a good amount of Hot Yoga classes have used both, the Manduka: Yogitoes Skidless towels, and the Gosweat by Shandali. Although I like both, I personally prefer this towel more than my Yogitoes one! It is extremely sticky, but ONLY when it's wet. I highly highly recommend you spray this towel down right before class so that you can get the most grip in down dog (where I can potentially slip the most). I've gotten to class with 2 minutes to spare a couple of times and didn't have time to spray down my towel, and have almost fallen flat on my face! This towel perfectly covers my Manduka Pro mat (a mat that is slightly larger than standard), which is why I picked this one out of the other mat towels on Amazon. I don't regret this purchase at all, and am definitely going to purchase this towel again in the future!

Can I just tell you how much I hate this rag! I practice Bikram yoga so it is HOT in there, like puddles of sweat hot. This towel may be absorbent, if you can get the darn thing to stay on your mat for any amount of time without balling up like a cheap blanket in a flop house. I will not stay put. I spend more time fixing and straightening this towel than necessary which is a major disappointment because I really needed a new towel and this one is such a pretty color. This may be ok for some other type of Yoga, I don't know. I would return it if I hadn't already sweated it up and tried it for several classes hoping it would improve. It did not. Maybe I will use it as a dog bed.

I had such high hopes for this towel. But I do alot of hot yoga (not Bikram) and this towel is way too thin and slippery to keep up. My two biggest issues are that it's definitely too slippery and it's doesn't stay flat. I was having a very hard time not slipping out of down dog! The feeling is almost velvet, which, while soft, isn't what you want to be doing hot yoga on. It also wrinkles up because it's too thin. I'll be standing on crumbled towel while in Warrior 2 and have to flatten it out every time I change positions. Plus, when I ordered it, the photo showed it as a pink towel with cream edging. False advertising WARNING - mine did not come with colored stitching and from reading others' reviews...theirs didn't either. My towel was just pink. I am using this as a beach towel now.

I bought this yoga towel mostly because of the overwhelmingly positive reviews here. However, I find the towel too slippery and it is hard for me to hold postures (Vinyasa hot yoga) steadily. I have tried to spray some water before practice, but this does not seem to help with the slipperiness. The good thing about the towel is that it is thin (not heavy) and the color (light blue) is nice.